Past Events
Tour de Lyme 2018
Time: starting at 8 am
Place: Ashlawn Farms, Bill Hill Road, Lyme CT
Contact Email: info@lymelandtrust.org
Presenter: Lyme Land Conservation Trust
Please join us for the sixth annual Tour de Lyme cycling event with beautifully scenic routes for all ages and levels. We’re looking forward to seeing you!
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! TourDeLyme.org.
The Lyme Land Trust inaugurated Tour de Lyme in 2013 as an annual bike ride to raise funds to support its mission of preserving and protecting environmentally important land in Lyme.
Volunteer Work Party at Mt Archer Woods
Date: Thu May 3, 2018Time: 9:30 am-12:00 pm
Place: Mt Archer Woods Preserve
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Please join us from 9:30 to 12:00 for a work party at Mt. Archer Woods Preserve in Lyme to continue clean-up of the historic ruins area. Come for all or part of the time. Bring heavy-duty work gloves, loppers and any other tools that you think will be helpful to remove invasives and clean up fallen limbs. Chain saws and power pruners are welcome.
The ruins are a little more than a half-mile in on the white trail. There will be refreshments!
Park at the Main Parking Lot of Mt Archer Woods on Mt Archer Road in Lyme.
Directions from Rte 156: Rt. 156 north to Mt. Archer Road. Left onto Mt Archer Road. Go one mile on Mt Archer Road (bear left up the big hill). The parking lot is down a long driveway on the left, the 4th long driveway after you start up the hill. Look for the stone post marker that has âMt Archer Woods Town of Lymeâ written on it. It faces the road, so you canât read it until you are on top of it. (If you get to 100 Mt. Archer Road, you have gone too far).
Please let me know if you are planning to be there. openspace@townlyme.org
Photos by Wendolyn Hill, work party on April 10, 2016
Trailblazers – Walk at Hartman Park
Date: Tue May 1, 2018Time: 9:30 am
Place: Meet at Hartman Park Parking Lot
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Presenter: Lyme Land Conservation Trust and Town of Lyme
Join us for this moderate walk in the woods.
On this hike, we will explore the red trail at the Hartman Park section of the Lyme Corner Trails led by Wendolyn Hill, Lyme Land Trust board member and Open Space Coordinator for the Town of Lyme. We will see activity of the extended beaver family, and walk through diverse habitat over beautiful rocky ridges. The hike is about 2.5 miles long with an option for short cuts along the way.There are exposed roots on some of the trails and a few inclines. Everyone is welcome.
Rain Cancels.
The Hartman Park Entrance is on Gungy Road about 1 mile north of the 4-way stop signs at the intersection of Beaverbrook Road, Grassy Hill Road, and Gungy Road.
Earth Day Family Fun for All Ages
Date: Sun April 22, 2018Time: 11:00am - 2:00pm
Place: The Diana and Parker Lord Nature Center, Banningwood Preserve, Town Street, Lyme
Contact Email: stewardship@lymelandtrust.org
Presenter: Lyme Land Trust
Earth Day Events at Diana’s Field –- 11:15 am: Live Bird of Prey presentation by A Place Called Hope
- 12:30: Guided Audubon Ecology Walk with Jim Arrigoni of Roger Tory Peterson Estuary Center
- 12:30: Bug Discovery in Roaring Brook with the Eight Mile River Wild and Scenic Coordinating Committee
- 11:00 – 2:00: Fun in the Field with Lyme Park and Rec
- Scavenger Hunt
- Bring your own picnic and blanket!
Earth Day Weekend – Walking Our Glacial Past – A Walk and Talk with Anthony Irving
Date: Sat April 21, 2018Time: 9:30-11:30am
Place: Register to learn parking location on Keeney Road, Nehantic State Forest
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Presenter: Lyme Land Trust and Town of Lyme
Anthony Irving, Lyme Land Trust board member, Chairman of the Eightmile River Wild and Scenic Committee, and well-known ecologist, will lead a Talk and Walk at the new 125-acre parcel on Keeney Road in Lyme that was acquired by the State of Connecticut in 2017. The preserved land has been incorporated into the existing 1,925-acre Nehantic State Forest to the south. The property has a unique topography, a product of glacial retreat from about 15,000 years ago. Some of the walk will be off trail. The walk is family friendly and will take about 2 hours.
For more information about the property, go to page 10 of the Summer 2017 newsletter.
Rain date: Saturday, April 28 at 9:30 am
Register to learn parking location: openspace@townlyme.org
Trailblazer walk – Griswold Point, Old Lyme
Date: Thu April 12, 2018Time: 2:30pm to 4:30ish
Place: Meet at parking lot for White Sands Beach, Old Lyme
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Join us for this easy walk in Old Lyme along the beach of Long Island Sound. Everyone is welcome.
This week’s hike starts at White Sands Beach as we explore Griswold Point Preserve in Old Lyme, led by Wendolyn Hill, Lyme Land Trust board member and Town of Lyme Open Space Coordinator. We will walk along the beach at low tide and go as far as we can on Griswold Point. It is a wonderful spot for bird-watching. The osprey are returning. Bring your binoculars and water bottle. We will walk about 2 miles.
Rain cancels.
Directions: From I-95N Exit 70, follow Rte. 156 south for about 3 miles. Take a right onto Old Shore Road. Go 0.5 miles and turn right onto White Sands Beach Road. Follow straight to the White Sands Beach Parking Lot.
photo by Wendolyn Hill
Postponed-Trailblazer walk – Griswold Point, Old Lyme
Date: Fri April 6, 2018Time: 9:30am
Place: Meet at parking lot for White Sands Beach, Old Lyme
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
This walk has been postponed to April 12. Join us for this easy walk in Old Lyme along the beach of Long Island Sound. Everyone is welcome.
This week’s hike starts at White Sands Beach as we explore Griswold Point Preserve in Old Lyme, led by Wendolyn Hill, Lyme Land Trust board member and Town of Lyme Open Space Coordinator. We will walk along the beach at low tide and go as far as we can on Griswold Point. It is a wonderful spot for bird-watching. The osprey are returning. Bring your binoculars and water bottle. We will walk about 2 miles.
Rain cancels.
Directions: From I-95N Exit 70, follow Rte. 156 south for about 3 miles. Take a right onto Old Shore Road. Go 0.5 miles and turn right onto White Sands Beach Road. Follow straight to the White Sands Beach Parking Lot.
photo by Wendolyn Hill
Twelfth Annual Land Trusts Amateur Photo Contest Reception
Date: Fri April 6, 2018Time: 6 to 7:30 pm, presentation at 7pm
Place: Lymes Senior Center, 26 Town Woods Road, Old Lyme, CT
Contact Email: info@landtrustsphotocontest.org
Everyone is welcome to
a reception which celebrates the scenic beauty of our towns. The work of all the photographers who entered the Land Trusts Amateur Photo Contest will be represented in the exhibit. During the presentation, winning photographs will be announced, and cash prizes and ribbons will be awarded. The reception is free. Light refreshments will be served.
The reception is sponsored by the Land Trusts of Lyme, East Haddam, Essex, Old Lyme, Old Saybrook, and Salem
Click here for more information.
Trailblazers walk-Pickwick’s to Mt Archer Woods
Date: Tue March 27, 2018Time: 1:30-3:30ish pm
Place: Meet at Mt Archer Woods Parking Lot, Mt Archer Road, Lyme
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Presenter: The Lyme Land Trust and The Town of Lyme
Join us for this moderately easy walk in the woods. Everyone is welcome.
We will walk from Pickwick’s Preserve to Mt Archer Woods, led by Wendolyn Hill, Lyme Land Trust board member and Open Space Coordinator for the Town of Lyme. The hike is a little more than 2 miles long. Meet at the Mt Archer Woods Parking Lot. The plan is to car pool over to the Pickwick Preserve entrance on Joshuatown Road and walk the trails back to the Mt Archer Parking Lot.
Inclement weather Cancels.
Directions: Rt. 156 north to Mt. Archer Road. Left on Mt Archer Road. Go one mile on Mt Archer Road (bear left up the big hill). The parking lot is down a long driveway on the left, the 4th long driveway after you start up the hill. Look for the stone post marker that has “Mt Archer Woods Town of Lyme” written on it. It faces the road, so you can’t read it until you are on top of it. (If you get to 100 Mt. Archer Road, you have gone too far).
CANCELLED – Volunteer Work Party at Mt Archer Woods
Date: Sun March 11, 2018Time: 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Place: Mt Archer Woods Preserve
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
This work party has been CANCELLED due to weather conditions! We will reschedule when conditions improve.
Please join us from 9:00 to 12:00 for a work party at Mt. Archer Woods Preserve in Lyme to continue clean-up of the historic ruins area. Come for all or part of the time. Bring heavy-duty work gloves to pull and remove barberry and other invasives from the around the stone walls. Bring loppers and any other tools that you think will be helpful. Chain saws and power pruners are also welcome.
The ruins are a little more than a half-mile in on the white trail. There will be refreshments!
Park at the Main Parking Lot of Mt Archer Woods on Mt Archer Road in Lyme.
Directions from Rte 156: Rt. 156 north to Mt. Archer Road. Left onto Mt Archer Road. Go one mile on Mt Archer Road (bear left up the big hill). The parking lot is down a long driveway on the left, the 4th long driveway after you start up the hill. Look for the stone post marker that has âMt Archer Woods Town of Lymeâ written on it. It faces the road, so you canât read it until you are on top of it. (If you get to 100 Mt. Archer Road, you have gone too far).
Please let me know if you are planning to be there. openspace@townlyme.org
Photos by Wendolyn Hill, work party on April 10, 2016
